Alec Habig

Graduate Faculty (Physics UMD)

I'm a cosmic ray astronomer who works with big neutrino detectors, using their ability to see lots of high energy cosmic rays (these are the data the neutrino people are busy trying to throw out!). These detectors will also be great for seeing the burst of neutrinos coming from a core-collapse supernova, but only if it's as close as somewhere in our own galaxy, which would be a few-times-a-century sort of event.